I’ve always found that the biggest benefactors of birth control and legal abortion have been predatory males. the biggest losers, other than the babies, have been the women, themselves, who have become nothing but sex toys to those males.
For less assertive women, the most convincing refusal to have no-commitment sex was fear of having illegitimate babies.
The irony is that this has happened in spite of, or maybe because of, the feminist movement.
“Men tend to take abortion lightly; they regard it as one of the numerous hazards imposed on women by malignant nature, but fail to realise fully the values involved. The woman who has recourse to abortion is disowning feminine values, her values, and at the same time is in most radical fashion running counter to the ethics established by men. Her whole moral universe is being disrupted....[H]ow could they fail to feel an inner mistrust of the presumptuous principles that men publicly proclaim and secretly disregard? They learn to believe no longer in what men say when they exalt woman or when they exalt man; the one thing they are sure of is this rifled and bleeding womb, these shreds of crimson life, this child that is not there.” - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist leader and advocate of legalized abortion, in The Second Sex, 1952
The irony is that this has happened in spite of, or maybe because of, the feminist movement.
Ding. Ding. Ding. Hammer ... meet nail. And this was all FORETOLD IN 1968!
Four Prophecies
In Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI made four rather general "prophecies" about what would happen if the Church's teaching on contraception were ignored ...
1) Infidelity and moral decline ...
2) Lost Respect for Women ...
3) Abuse of Power ...
4) Unlimited Dominion ...
"Whoever has ears ought to hear ... they hear but do not listen or understand."
“The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.”
Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, in Damaged Goods, 1986